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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1yNTZ4LWo0Mzgtdnc1bc4AA7UI

vyper performs double eval of the slice args when buffer from adhoc locations

Summary

Using the slice builtin can result in a double eval vulnerability when the buffer argument is either msg.data, self.code or <address>.code and either the start or length arguments have side-effects.

A contract search was performed and no vulnerable contracts were found in production. Having side-effects in the start and length patterns is also an unusual pattern which is not that likely to show up in user code. It is also much harder (but not impossible!) to trigger the bug since 0.3.4 since the unique symbol fence was introduced (https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/2914).

Details

It can be seen that the _build_adhoc_slice_node function of the slice builtin doesn't cache the mentioned arguments to the stack: https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/blob/4595938734d9988f8e46e8df38049ae0559abedb/vyper/builtins/functions.py#L244

As such, they can be evaluated multiple times (instead of retrieving the value from the stack).

PoC

with Vyper version 0.3.3+commit.48e326f the call to foo passes the asserts:

l: DynArray[uint256, 10]

@external
def foo(cs: String[64]) -> uint256:
    for i in range(10):
        self.l.append(1)
    assert len(self.l) == 10
    s: Bytes[64] = b""
    s = slice(msg.data, self.l.pop(), 3)
    assert len(self.l) == 10 - 2
    return len(self.l)

Impact

No vulnerable production contracts were found.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r56x-j438-vw5m
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: 11 days ago
Updated: 11 days ago

CVSS Score: 5.3
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-r56x-j438-vw5m, CVE-2024-32646
References:

• https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/security/advisories/GHSA-r56x-j438-vw5m
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32646
• https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper/pull/2914
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r56x-j438-vw5m

Repository: https://github.com/vyperlang/vyper
Blast Radius: 12.6

Affected Packages